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Archive for October 2006

October 18th, 2006

JumpStartTV - Online Video Tutorials

Awhile back I shared with you about the online video tutorial site, Tubetorial.
I’ve just stumbled across another similar site while I was searching for some information on SQL. JumpStartTV provides similar online training videos.
Welcome to Jumpstart TV: your how-to hub on the Internet for almost any topic. Jumpstart TV is a free community […]

By Jason Bean -- 1 comment

October 18th, 2006

Bill Buckner’s World Series Error

An article was brought to my attention today and it talked about the amazing error by Bill Buckner in the World Series. If you’re at all a baseball fan and maybe even if you’re not, you’re aware of or have seen the video of Bill Buckner missing a little hit off of Mookie Wilson that […]

By Jason Bean -- 0 comments

October 10th, 2006

Call-Em-All

How do you communicate to a large group of people in one fell swoop? E-mail? Nope, not everyone has e-mail or wants to share their address with you. And can you really guarantee that everyone will actually receive the e-mail? Fax? Nope! Smoke signals? Negatory!

The call-em-all website provides the ability for you to use the […]

By Jason Bean -- 5 comments

October 9th, 2006

Reward TV - Benefits for Couch Potatoes

With the new season of shows in full swing, what better way to spend your time away from the TV, than in front of the LCD screen and answering questions about what you watched?
Reward TV lets you answer a variety of questions about the shows and commercials you’ve watched in the past week and in […]

By Jason Bean -- 0 comments

October 9th, 2006

Online Learning with Tubetorial

I was recently e-mailed out of the blue from someone, Chris Pearson, that used to live in the same apartment community as I did during my time in Franklin, TN. It was a little weird to connect with them, but I found out one of his projects is offering free online video tutorials to help […]

By Jason Bean -- 2 comments

October 9th, 2006

In the Pursuit of Education

This past week and weekend has been consumed by a quest for more information about education. My wife is actively involved in our local PTA for my son’s school and there are some large decisions being discussed that could threaten the future of him attending one of our local Edison Schools, which we love. So, […]

By Jason Bean -- 1 comment

October 5th, 2006

b5media Secures $2M

It’s official, b5media has secured $2M in funding from Brightspark Ventures and J.L. Albright Venture Partners.
More details covered here:
Official announcement at b5media.
Thoughts from Rick Segal of J.L. Albright Venture Partners
Living to Do What You Want to Do (or why b5media is the best funded company around)
b5media VC funding coverage
b5media Takes Funding

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By Jason Bean -- 0 comments

October 3rd, 2006

Savage Chickens by Doug Savage

I’ve just got to share this site with you and not sure why I haven’t previously. It’s called Savage Chickens. It’s the website for a cartoonist named Doug Savage. He draws his cartoons, always featuring chickens on Post-It notes. The daily situations and mental ramblings he puts this fowl follies through absolutely cracks me up […]

By Jason Bean -- 1 comment

October 2nd, 2006

Bookmooch

Is your office or family room beginning to look like your local Half Priced Books store? Do you collect and read books like a squirrel collects nuts? You should definitely browse on over to the Bookmooch site. Bookmooch gives “New life for Old books”.
BookMooch is a community for exchanging used books.
BookMooch lets you give away […]

By Jason Bean -- 0 comments